By Jagdish Bhatt | September 13, 2011 Hill Post Dehra Dun : – Though newly sworn-in chief minister Maj Gen (retd) B C Khanduri may have made an effort to convince the masses that he is sincere in eradicating corruption that has become all-prevalent in…

Dehradun Diary The Tribune, September 12, 2011 MAJ-Gen BC Khanduri (retd) today took over as the sixth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand that came into being a decade ago on November 9, 2000. Out of these six Chief Ministers, during the past 10 years, five of…

Solid article, but as the reporter himself notes, Nishank was able to buy off his critics in the media to hide the disintegration of the state government. Only a few reporters were intrepid and dedicated enough to consistently expose the regime. Rajeev Khanna The Tribune…

Jagdish Bhatt Hill Post, September 11, 2011 Dehra Dun: Maj Gen (retd) Bhuvan Chand Khanduri, who is to be sworn in as the 6th chief minister of this tiny mountain state later today, (twice in a period of less than five years) after his unceremonious…

September 10, 2011 The BJP once again decides to rearrange the deck chairs on its “Titanic” regime by swapping Chief Ministers ahead of assembly elections. Even while decrying the corruption allegations as baseless, the party high command has basically affirmed the severely damaging charges against…

Ashish Kothari Hindustan Times June 16, 2011 The starkly disproportionate response of the government, media and the public to the two babas on fast over the last few days is symptomatic of a deep malaise in our democratic set-up. Capturing the headlines was Baba Ramdev,…

The Tribune, Mussoorie, April 19 The Uttarakhand Parivartan Party (UPP), buoyed by the response during the ‘Uttarakhand Parivartan Yatra’ that began on Martyr’s Day of Shaheed Bhagat Singh on March 23, is all set to take its struggle right to the door of the mafia…

PTI | 05:03 PM,Mar 06,2011 Dehra Dun, Mar 6 (PTI) The Uttarakhand Assembly has failed to conduct even 30 sittings a year against the required 60 sittings as stated in the house’s rule book, a report said.Since formation of the state in 2000, the Vidhan…

Dehra Dun, Feb 20 (PTI) Women activists and NGOs have slammed the BJP government in Uttarakhand for expelling three women district panchayat heads on charges of embezzlement of funds. A host of women activists and their organisations have condemned the government”s action, saying the removal…

In what is amounting to be another egregious if subtle abuse of power and insult to the Uttarakhand people and culture by the current state government, the chief minister and his cabinet have been hurrying to name as many institutions after BJP standard bearers and…